After the lecture, the graduate and undergraduate students have had an opportunity to ask questions and to also share their research interests to Dr. Karanovic Roque and the Laboratory of the UST Graduate School.

Dr. Karanovic is an assistant professor at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, and he is also the editor about free-living Copepoda for the ISI journal, Zootaxa. The lecture, sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences – College of Science, the Graduate School and the Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, mirrors the University’s commitment to foster internationalization and research collaborations with leading researchers in various fields of research.

The University of Santo Tomas is one of the top four universities in the Philippines and is consistently ranked among the top 1000 universities in the whole world. UST is both timeless, owing to its more than four hundred years of quality Catholic education, and timely, as it continuously responds to the needs of the present.